Seymour Declares Town Official Home of the Hamburger
Seymour Wisconsin hosts the annual Hamburger Festival to honor Charlie Nagreen's 1885 county fair burger. White Castle backs Seymour as Home of the Hamburger, with 10,000 free patties and a 55 metre bun throw by Jeff Braun, a UW shot put champion and Seymour native.
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Seymour
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White Castle Systems Inc
Columbus
Ohio
Green Bay
Charlie Nagreen
Pat Krohlow
Jeff Braun
University of Wisconsin
Bush Rabin meet in Kennebunkport on loan guarantees
President George Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin held talks in Kennebunkport as senior U.S. officials sought a broad loan guarantees package for Israel, possibly up to 10 billion dollars, to absorb 400000 Soviet immigrants amid tensions with Shamir over settlements. Rabin, campaigning ahead of June elections, sought to appease the economy while Rabin frozen new settlement construction.
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Kennebunkport
George Bush
Yitzhak Rabin
U.S
Bush
Rabin
Yitzhak Shamir
Israel
Soviet Union
Shamir
United States
Women decry 1.9 million national survey on violence
Several women’s groups condemn the federal plan to spend 1.9 million on a national survey of 20 000 Canadian women. They say the study is pointless incomplete and could endanger respondents by exposing intimate details to abusive partners and will miss non English or French speakers.
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Ottawa
Lisa Duggan
Ontario Association of Interval and Transition Houses
Olympic Closing Night Caps Barcelona Games with Spectacle
Canada finishes with 18 medals led by six golds, five silvers and seven bronzes. Mark Leduc earns silver in boxing as Ben Johnson is expelled from the Olympic Village for an assault on a volunteer.
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Olypics
Canada
Mark Leduc
Leduc
Hector Vinent
Ben Johnson
Olympic Village
Premiers Seek New Constitutional Ideas at Harrington Lake
Saskatchewan Premier Roy Romanow and New Brunswick's Frank McKenna plan fresh proposals for the constitutional impasse as Prime Minister Brian Mulroney gathers first ministers at Harrington Lake. Ovide Mercredi and supporters vow a protest outside Mulroney's residence over Indigenous leaders' exclusion.
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Ottawa
Saskatchewan
Roy Romanow
Brian Mulroney
Romanow
New Brunswick
Frank McKenna
Mulroney
Harrington Lake
Que
Ovide Mercredi
Assembly of First Nations
Rioting Follows Guns N Roses Cancelled Montreal Show
In Montreal police charged twelve fans with disturbances and assault after rioters trash Olympic Stadium. Eight officers suffered minor injuries amid rock throwings, bottle assaults, and property damage including a shattered display case and a burned car. Crews cleaned up Sunday as rioters destroyed shops and started small fires.
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Montreal
Olympic Stadium
Annie
Expos
Weapons flow into Yugoslavia war zone despite UN embargo
Western military experts say third party arms traders fuel ethnic strife in Yugoslavia, with many origins identifiable but not linked to governments or manufacturers. France Britain and the US discuss a UN resolution on humanitarian aid and detention camps as Serbs threaten Gorazde with claims of 2,500 hostages.
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Paris
Reuter
United Nations
Paul Beaver
Jane’s Defence Weekly
Yugoslavia
Josip Broz Tito
Moscow
France
Britain
United States
Bosnia
Her
Gorazde
Canadians Willing to Concede to Win Quebec Approval
A Angus Reid-Southam News poll shows 61 per cent of Canadians and 55 per cent of Quebecers would make some concessions to keep the country united but major changes to Senate reform face resistance. Quebec’s Premier Bourassa opposes equal Senate representation. 47 per cent of Quebecers reject it even if other demands are met.
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Ottawa
Quebec
Angus Reid-Southam
Harrington Lake
Robert Bourassa
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